Lucy the Elephant
The New Jersey Shore has always had its fair share of spectacular eye-popping sights to see. Historically there have been...
The Matawan Man-Eater: The Real-Life Jersey “Jaws”
Nearly 60 years before Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws," a real man-eater lurked the waters of the New Jersey coast. It...
EXCLUSIVE: Matawan Man-Eater Mural Artist Reveals Identity!
If the image of these toothy shark jaws look familiar to you it's probably because at some point you, like...
Doing Time at Newark Street Jail
Story and photos by Rusty Tagliareni From Weird NJ's Special Issue Forsaken: Abandoned In And Around New Jersey The Newark...
Death and Destruction at the Devil’s Tea Table
Perched 365 feet above the scenic Delaware River, on a rocky wooded hillside in the town of Kingwood, stands a...
Weird NJ Issue #60 is Here NOW!
Weird N.J. Issue #60 is Here NOW! Weird NJ Magazine: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey’s Local Legends and Best...
Haunted Hindenburg Hangar at Lakehurst
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire...
The “Lindbergh of Mexico” Goes Down in the Pines
2023 marks the 95th anniversary of the fatal crash of Captain Emilio Carranza, the “Mexican Lindbergh,” deep in a remote...
The “Star Wars” Gravestone, Rahway
On Mother's Day I was visiting my mother and father's grave in Hazelwood Cemetery in Rahway. I noticed a long...
Dark Tales From Inside the Edgewater-Fairview Tunnel
One of the great lost passageways of New Jersey, this tunnel stretches from its western entrance beneath the Fairview Cemetery...